If you previously had ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 (CTP 1) and had already created a few projects on it then you might have to take this additional step to convert your project to ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (MIX 2008) [After installing MVC Preview 2 ( Resources...

Design view in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 provides several tools that help with absolute and relative positioning of controls. I'd like to describe how do they work and what kind of visual hints the designer provides.
How do...

I am attempting to compile the relevant resources for ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 at one place so that you will not have to keep searching around...
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Download Location:
Preview 2 Download (English-US) - Microsoft.com download...

Note: Please see this post for an updated set of templates created for ASP.NET MVC RTM: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/04/28/updated-nunit-templates-for-asp-net-mvc-1-0-rtm.aspx
Vishal’s earlier blog post, ASP.NET MVC Test Framework...

The feature I'm most excited about in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is ironically one you might not notice at all.
Problem
If you're reading this, you probably know (and are still untangling the double-negative logic of) the "Disable script debugging...

To View On Demand Webcast : Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers : CLICK HERE
Wanted to update you on a upcoming web cast that I am doing in support of Visual Studio 2008 launch event...
Title : New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008
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Previously I gave an overview of new tooling features for ASP.NET MVC Framework that we are hoping to make available during MIX 2008 timeframe. You can read more about Overview of MVC Tooling Features for MIX 2008 here .
Goals: ASP.NET MVC Framework...

There has been a tremendous positive response on ASP.NET MVC Framework from the community since we released the December 2007 CTP of ASP.NET Extensions . With MIX 2008 coming closer our teams have been super busy in trying to bring out value additions...

Last month we released RTW version of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) 2008. You can read more about this release by clicking here . After getting this ENU release together our Redmond team and Japanese team got together to work on the Japanese version of...

We have good news for jQuery fans. The hotfix we released today fixes a bug in IntelliSense where it would fail with jQuery. Any page with jQuery should just work now. While experimenting with this new-found functionality today, I found annotating the...

We have received a great deal of feedback on VS 2008 and VWD 2008. Thank you for all the feedback.
We have looked at the feedback carefully and selected some critical issues around performance and editor usage to fix in this hotfix. This article...

I often get the question “Why isn’t IntelliSense working?”. The most common cause is an error in one of the referenced scripts. If there was an IntelliSense update error, the status bar will tell you.
Given this situation, the Error List will complement...

In December 2007, we had released Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects... Thanks a ton to all of you in the community for being so active in adopting and trying the CTP versions of WDP... Since the December CTP...

Web server settings, which are accessible inside Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages (Web section) allow you to specify settings associated to to Visual Studio Development Server or IIS. Many a times in a team development environment it is...

If you have more than one project in your solution you can use following options of solution properties to set your start up actions... You can get the below dialog by right clicking your solution and going to its properties:
If you have more than...

When you add a global.asax file to your "Web Application Projects (WAPs) like below:
and then write code in Application_Start event and try to debug it like below using Visual Studio inbuilt Development Web Server
Then during your first debug...

The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a few talented and experienced invididuals to join our team. We have opportunities in development, testing, and program management. Our team builds Visual Studio features that enable creating applications for...

Based on the feedback from web development community we just released the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008... This release of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) has all the features that VS 2005 WDP release...

A quick announcement -- an updated version of the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 that works with the released version of Visual Studio 2008 is now available!
This release provides the same features as the Silverlight Tools...

I'm glad to announce that Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition has officially shipped, and is now available for immediate download . Here is a quick summary of some of the great new capabilities in this release:
Tools to Design Web Pages
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It should be no surprise that JScript Documentation Comments power much of what you see in JScript IntelliSense in VS2008. Perhaps the most useful of these comments is the "reference" comment. The "reference" comment allows you to "see" functions and...

Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a new book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 " The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008 ". It describes...